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WO2012038344A1
WO2012038344A1 PCT/EP2011/066118 EP2011066118W WO2012038344A1 WO 2012038344 A1 WO2012038344 A1 WO 2012038344A1 EP 2011066118 W EP2011066118 W EP 2011066118W WO 2012038344 A1 WO2012038344 A1 WO 2012038344A1
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Stefan KRÄGELOH
Bert Greevenbosch
Giovanni Del Galdo
Juliane Borsum
Jörg PICKEL
Reinhard Zitzmann
Tobias Bliem
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  • Embodiments according to the present invention are related to a watermark generator for providing a watermark signal based on discrete valued data. Further embodiments according to the present invention relate to a watermark decoder for providing discrete valued data in dependence on a watermarked signal. Further embodiments according to the present invention are related to a method for providing a watermark signal based on discrete valued data. Further embodiments according to the present invention are related to a method for providing discrete valued data in dependence on a watermarked signal. Further embodiments are related to corresponding computer programs. Background of the Invention
  • a watermarking system can be viewed as a communication system. Let the bit- wise information to be transmitted be represented by a watermark signal "wm", which is the desired signal.
  • the signal wm is 'embedded' into a host signal "a” by adding the two signals (the watermark signal wm and the host signal a), obtaining a watermarked signal "awm".
  • the host signal can be seen as an additive distortion, This means that awm deviates from its ideal value wm, corrupting the decoding process (if the original host signal a is not known at the decoder).
  • the signal awm is further affected by a transmission channel, in that the channel introduces distortions.
  • Examples of transmission channels are the compression of the signal awm with an audio codec such as A AC as well as the playback of the signal awm with a loudspeaker, its propagation in air, and its pickup with a microphone.
  • a characteristic of watermark systems is that one part of the distortion, namely the host signal, is known at the transmitter. If this information is exploited during embedding the method is called informed embedding or watermarking with side information (see also Ingemar J. Cox, Ed., Digital watermarking and steganography, The Morgan aufmami series in multimedia information and systems, Morgan Kaufmam , Burlington, 2. ed. edition, 2008).
  • weighting the watermark wm according to power levels given by a perceptual model is already a ease of informed embedding.
  • this information is used merely to scale the watermark in order to make it imperceptible whereas the host signal is still seen as an unknown noise source for the generation of the watermark prior to the weighting.
  • host-interference rejecting methods see also Chen and Wornell, " Quantization index modulation: A class of provably good methods for digital watermarking and information embedding," IEEE TRANSACTION ON INFORMATION THEORY, May 2001 , vol. VOL. 47
  • differential encoding has been introduced in combination with BPSK- (binary phase shift keying) signaling to obtain a system which is robust with respect to movement of the decoding device (for example if the signal is picked up by a microphone), potential frequency mismatch between the local oscillators in the transmit (Tx) and receive (Rx) sides and potential phase rotations introduced by a frequency selective channel, such as the propagation in the reverberant environment.
  • BPSK- binary phase shift keying
  • Quantization index modulation A class of provabiy good methods for digital watermarking and information embedding
  • the parameters of a signal representation e.g.. the complex coefficients of a time-frequency representation.
  • the parameters chosen are then quantized according to information to be embedded.
  • each information- carrying symbol is linked with a certain quantizer; alternatively a whole message is linked with a sequence of quantizers.
  • the signal is quantized with the quantizer or sequence of quantizers associated with the information. For instance, if the parameter to be quantized was a positive real number, the quantizer to be used to embed a 0 could be defined by the quantization steps 0, 2, 4, 6, . . . whereas the quantizer for a 1 could be 1, 3, 5, . , ..
  • the embedder would change the value to 4 in case of a bit 0 and to 5 in case of a 1.
  • the distance between the received signal representation and all possible quantized representations is calculated. The decision is made according to the minimum distance. In other words, the receiver attempts to identify which of the available quantizers has been used, By doing so, host-interference rejection can be achieved.
  • quantizing certain signal parameters may introduce perceivable distortion to the host signal, in order to prevent this the quantization error may be partly added back to the signal which is referred to as distortion-compensated QIM (DC-QIM) (see also Antonius Kalker, "Quantization index modulation (QIM) digital watermarking of multimedia signals," 2001 , WO03/053064). This is an additional source of distortion at the receiver.
  • DC-QIM distortion-compensated QIM
  • Angle QIM Another method (derived from QIM) is named Angle QIM (AQIM) and was proposed in the article of Fabricio Ourique; Vinicius Licks; Ramiro Jordan; Fernando Perez-Gonzalez, Angle qim: A novel watermark embedding scheme robust against amplitude scaling distortions," IEEE international Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
  • a watermark generator according to claim 1
  • a watermark decoder according to claim 11
  • a method for providing a watermark signal based on discrete valued data according to claim 14
  • a method for providing discrete valued data in dependence on a watermarked signal according to claim 15 and a computer program according to claim 16.
  • An embodiment according to the present invention creates a watermark generator for providing a watermark signal as a sequence of subsequent watermark coefficients based on discrete valued data.
  • the watermark generator optionally comprises an information processor configured to provide, in dependence on information units of the discrete valued data, a stream of subsequent stream values, such that the stream represents the discrete valued data.
  • the watermark generator further comprises a differential encoder configured to provide the watermark signal, The differential encoder is further configured to apply a phase rotation to a current stream value of the stream values representing the discrete valued data or to a current watermark symbol, the current, watermark symbol corresponding to a current stream value of the stream values representing the discrete valued data, to obtain a current watermark coefficient of the watermark signal.
  • the differential encoder is further configured to derive a phase of a previous spectral coefficient of a watermarked signal which is a combination of a host signal and the watermark signal.
  • the differential encoder is further configured to provide the watermark signal such that a phase angle of the phase rotation applied to the current stream value or the current watermark symbol is dependent on the phase of the previous spectra! coefficient of the watermarked signal.
  • a watermark signal is more robust, especially with respect to a degradation, for example, by Doppler effect, if a differential encoding of a watermark coefficients is performed such that a phase of a current watermark coefficient is based on a phase of a previous spectral coefficient of a watermarked signal which is to be embedded in a host signal.
  • Embodiments of the present invention combine host interference rejection with differential encoding. This concept of deriving the phase of the current watermark coefficient based on the phase of a previous spectral coefficient of the watermarked signal reduces the distortion induced by the host signal and thus improves a decoding process, for example at a decoder being configured to extract the watermark si gnal out of the watermarked signal.
  • the information processor may be configured to provide the stream representing the discrete valued data in a time frequency domain, such that each stream value of the stream is associated to a frequency subchannel with a center frequency and a time slot.
  • the differential encoder may be configured to obtain the current watermark coefficient in the time frequency domain, such that a frequency subchannel associated to the current watermark coefficient is identical to a frequency subchannel associated to the current stream value and such tha a time slot associated to the current watermark coefficient is identical to a time slot associated to the current stream value,
  • the current stream value and the current watermark coefficient which corresponds to the current stream value may be associated to the same frequency subchannel and time slot,
  • the information processor may for example perform a time spreading and a frequency spreading of the information units of the discrete valued data, such that every information unit of the discrete valued data is represented by at least two different stream values of the stream representing the discrete valued data, wherein different stream values representing the same information unit differ in their associated frequency subchannels and/or time slots.
  • the differential encoder may be configured to derive the spectral coefficients of the watermarked signal in a time frequency domain such that each spectral coefficient of the watermarked signal corresponds to a frequency subchannel and a time slot.
  • the differential encoder may further be configured to determine the phase rotation, such that a time slot associated to the previous spectral coefficient of the watermarked signal, in dependence on which the phase angle of the phase rotation applied to the current stream value or the current watermark symbol is chosen, and the time slot associated to the current stream value are adjacent in time.
  • the watermarked signal may for example be a sequence of subsequent spectral coefficients and a current spectral coefficient of the watermarked signal may be adjacent in time to (or may follow) the previous spectra! coefficieni of the watermarked signal.
  • Each spectral coefficient, of the watermarked signal may be a combination of a spectral coefficient of the host signal associated to the same frequency subchannel and time slot, like the spectral coefficient of the watermarked signal and of a watermark coefficient associated to the same frequency subchannel and time slot like the spectral coefficient of the watermarked signal,
  • the current spectral coefficient of the watermarked signal may therefore be based on a current coefficient of the host signal and the current watermark coefficient, wherein the phase of the current watermark coefficient is based on (or is in some cases even identical to) the phase of the previous spectral coefficient of the watermarked signal.
  • the frequency subchannel associated to the previous spectral coefficient of the watermarked signal may be identical to the frequency subchannel of the current spectral coefficient of the watermarked signal and therefore also to the frequency subchannels of the current coefficient of the host signal, of the current stream value and of the current watermark coeffic ent.
  • Fig, 1 shows a block schematic diagram of a watermark generator, according to an embodiment, of the present invention
  • Fig. 2 shows a bock schematic diagram of a differential encoder, for use in an
  • Fig. 3a to 3c show diagrams of an example for phase rotation and scaling applied in the differential encoder of Fig. 2;
  • Fig, 4 shows a block schematic diagram of a differential encoder for use in an embodiment of the present invention
  • Fig. 5 shows a diagram of an example of mapping stream values to watermark symbols
  • Fig. 6a shows diagrams of possible outputs for different stream values in dependence on a maximum number of watermark symbols associated to the same stream value
  • Fig, 6b shows a diagram of an example on how a watermark coefficient is derived in an M-point constellation using the differential encoder from Fig, 4;
  • Fig. 7 shows a block schematic diagrain of a watermark generator according to a further embodiment of the present invention.
  • Fig, 8a shows as a comparison example to Fig. 7, a block schematic diagram of a watermark generator as described in EP 10154964;
  • Fig, 8b shows a diagram as an example for the embedding principle of the watermark generator from Fig, 8a;
  • Fig. 9 shows a block schematic diagram of a watermarked audio signal provider with a watermark generator according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • Fig. 10 shows a flow diagram of a method according to an embodiment of the present invention:
  • Fig, 11 shows a block schematic diagram of a watermark decoder according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • Fig. 12 shows a diagram of an example of the mapping of different: phase angle ranges to discrete values of discrete valued data like it is performed by the watermark decoder from Fig. 1 1 ,
  • a watermark generator 100 will be described taking reference to Fig. 1 , which shows the block schematic diagram of such a watermark generator.
  • the watermark generator 100 is configured to provide a watermark signal 102, also designated as "wm", as a sequence of subsequent watermark coefficients.
  • the watermark generator comprises an optional information processor 106 and a differential encoder 108.
  • the information processor 106 is configured to provide, in dependence on information units (for example bits) of the discrete valued data 104 (for example binary data), a first stream 1 10 of subsequent stream values, such that the stream 110 represents the discrete valued data 104.
  • the differential encoder 108 is configured to provide the watermark signal 102 and to apply a phase rotation 112 to a current stream value (for example, a stream value b(i, j)) of the stream values representing the discrete valued data 104 or to a current watermark symbol (for example, a watermark symbol Xk(i, j)) corresponding to a current stream value (for example, to the stream value b(i, j)) of the stream values representing the discrete valued data 104, to obtain a current watermark coefficient (for example a watermark coefficient wm(i, j)) of the watermark signal 102.
  • a current stream value for example, a stream value b(i, j)
  • a current watermark symbol for example, a watermark symbol Xk(i, j)
  • a current watermark coefficient for example a watermark coefficient wm(i, j)
  • the differential encoder 108 may therefore perform an optional stream value to watermark symbol mapping 1 14.
  • the differential encoder 108 is further configured to derive a phase 1 16 of a spectral coefficient (for example a spectral coefficien awm(i, j - 1)) of a watermarked signal.
  • the watermarked signal is a combination of a host signal 118 and the watermark signal 102.
  • the watermarked signal may also be designated as "awm” and the host signal may also be designated as "a”.
  • the differential encoder 108 is configured to provide the watermark signal 102 such that, a phase angle of the phase rotation 112 applied to the current stream value or the current watermark symbol is dependent on the phase 1 16 of the previous spectral coefficient of the watermarked signal.
  • the phase angle of the phase rotation 112 applied to the cun-ent stream value or the current watermark symbol is equal to the phase angle of the previous spectral coefficient of the watermarked signal
  • the differential encoder 108 may perform a phase derivation 120 on the previous spectral coefficient of the watermarked signal.
  • the previous spectral coefficient may, for example, be provided from a stage which is external to the watermark generator 100, or the differential encoder 108 may be configured to determine spectral coefficients of the watermarked signal by combining watermark coefficients and spectral coefficients of the host, signal 1 18.
  • the differential encoder 108 may be configured to derive the previous spectral coefficient of the watermarked signal based on a combination of a previous watermark coefficient (for example a watermark coefficient wm(i, j - 1)) and a previous spectral coefficient, for example a spectral coefficient a(i, j - 1)) of the host signal 1 18, n other words, the differential encoder may not only derive watermark coefficients but. also spectral coefficients of the watermarked signal.
  • the informatio processor 106 may be configured to provide the first stream 1 10 representing the discrete valued data 104 in a time frequency domain, such that each stream value of the stream 1 10 is associated to a frequency subchannel and a time slot.
  • index "i” used above may indicate the frequency subchannel and the index “j” may indicate the "symbol number” or, in other words, the time slot of the corresponding coefficient or symbol, in other words "i” denotes a frequency subchannel (at center frequency £;) and “j” denotes the temporal index or the time slot of the value corresponding to it,
  • each stream value of the stream 1 10 is associated to a frequency subchannel i and a time slot j.
  • the differential encoder 108 may be configured to obtain the current watermark coefficient wm(i, j) in the time frequency domain, such that a frequency subchannel i associated to the current watermark coefficient wm(i, j) is identical to a frequency subchannel i associated to the current stream value b(i, j) and such that a time slot j associated to the current watermark coefficient m(i, j) is identical to a time slot j associated to the current stream value b(i, j).
  • a frequency subchannel and a time slot or symbol number of a watermark coefficient of the watermark signal wm which are associated to a stream value of the stream value of the stream 1 10, may be identical to the frequency subchannel and time slot or symbol number of the corresponding stream value
  • the differential encoder 108 may be configured to derive spectral coefficients of the watermarked signal in a time frequency domain too, such that each spectral coefficient of the watermarked signal is associated to a frequency subchannel, and a time slot.
  • the differential encoder 108 may therefore be configured to determine the phase rotation 1 12 such that a time slot j - 1 which is associated to the previous spectral coefficient awm(i, j - 1 ) of the watermarked signal, in dependence on which the phase angle of the phase rotation 1 12 applied to the current stream value b(L j) or the current watermark symbol Xj C (i, j) is chosen, and the time slot j corresponding to the current stream value b(i, j) are adjacent in time.
  • a current spectral coefficient awm(L j) which is a combination of the current watermark coefficient wm(L j) and the current spectral coefficient a(L j) of the host signal 118.
  • the differential encoder 108 may directly follow the previous spectral coefficient awm(i, j -I ) in time when the watermarked signal is viewed as a sequence of subsequent spectral coefficients awm(i, j) (i, j e N). Furthermore, the differential encoder 108 may be configured such that the frequency subchannels i of the current stream value b(i, j), the current watermark coefficient wm(i, j) and the spectral coefficient awm(i, j) are identical. This means, the differential encoder 108 may perform the watermark signal derivation process for every frequency subchannel onto which the information units of discrete valued data 104 are mapped.
  • phase of the current watermark coefficient wm(i, j) may therefore only be based on the previous spectral coefficient awm(i, j - 1 ) of the watermarked signal being associated to the same frequency subchannel i like the current watermark coefficient wm(i, j).
  • a differential encoder 208 for use in a watermark generator shall be explained taking reference to the Figs. 2, 3a to 3c.
  • the host signal 1 18 will be an audio signal and may also be designated as host, audio signal in which the watermark signal is to be embedded. Nevertheless, embodiments of the present invention may also be used for embedding watermark signals in other signals than audio signal, for example in video signals.
  • the functionality of the differential encoder 208 may be equivalent to the functionality of the differential encoder 108 and the differential encoder 208 may comprise the further functionalities shown in Fig. 2.
  • the differential encoder 208 is configured to receive the host signal 118 as a host audio signal a(t) in the time domain.
  • the differential encoder 208 may therefore comprise, as shown in Fig. 2, an analysis filter bank 202 configured to obtain the spectral coefficients (for example the current spectral coefficient a(L j)) of th host signal 1 18 in the time frequency domain.
  • This analysis filter bank 202 may also be used in a corresponding watennark decoder.
  • the audio coefficients (the spectral coefficients of the host signal 118) in the encoder may be obtained by applying the same analysis filter bank 202 that is used in a decoder.
  • Obtaining the spectral coefficient of the host signal 1 18 may be pail of the phase derivation 120, which is performed by the differential encoder 208.
  • the obtained current spectral coefficient a mfi, j) of the watermarked signal may be stored in the differential encoder 208 (symbolized by a delay element 206 of the differential encoder 208).
  • the stored current spectral coefficient awm(i, j) of the watermarked, signal may then be used to determine a following watermark coefficient wm(i, j + 1). To find the current watermark coefficient wm(i, j) for the.
  • phase 1 16 of the previous spectral coefficient awm(i, j - I), which is also designated as previous watermarked audio coefficient of the watermarked signal is calculated, for example, in a phase calculating process 210 of the phase derivation process 120 using the following equation: In this application " " designates the imaginary unit (square root of -1), it should not be mixed up the index j for the time slots.
  • the phase 1 16 (represented by the complex value e" i,(,, j-3 ) or the phase angle ⁇ p(i, j - 1) of the previous spectral coefficient awm(i, j - 1) is used by the differential encoder 208 in the phase rotation 1 12, which is applied to the current stream value b(i, j) of the stream 1 10.
  • a phase of the current watermark coefficient wm(i, j) is identical to the phase 1 16 of the previous spectral coefficient awmil j - 1) of the watermarked signal, or in other words the current watermark, coefficient wm(i, j) points in the same direction as the previous spectral coefficient awm(i, j - 1) of the watermarked signal,
  • a phase change by % (180°) is to be transmitted (for example if the current stream value b(i, j) is -1 ), the current watermark coefficient wm(i, j) may point in the opposite direction when compared to the previous spectral coefficien awm(i, j - 1 ) of the watermarked signal.
  • the stream values may, for example, be binary data, for example, the stream values may be: b(i, i) - i - i
  • phase 1 16 (e o; ' ' :; ; is undefined, the phase 1 16 or e" ⁇ l ' s) may be set equal 1 .
  • the differential encoder 208 may further perform a scaling of the current stream value b(i, j) by a current scaling factor y(i, j) (i, j s N, ⁇ e II) or by a current factor which is smaller than the current sealing factor y(L j),
  • the scaling 210 may be applied to the current stream value b(i, j) before applying the phase rotation 1 12 or after applying the phase rotation 1 12 (as it is shown in Fig, 2).
  • the current scaling factor y(i, j) is provided by a psychoacoustical processing module (not shown in Fig. 2) in dependence on the host signal 1 18, into which the watermark signal 102 is to be embedded.
  • the scaling factor yfi, j) describes a masking characteristic of the host signal 118.
  • the current scaling factor y(i, j) may determine a maximum amplitude of the current, watermark symbol wm(i, j) such that the current watermark coefficient wm(i, j) stays inaudible in the watermarked signal.
  • the maximum ampliiiide of the current watermark coefficient wm(i, j) allowed by the psychoacoustical model is always used.
  • the differential encoder 208 may therefore determine the current watermark coefficient wm(i, j) as: wni(i, j) - b(i, j) ⁇ yi l j) - e / ⁇ p(U"i) . (4)
  • the encoding strategy may get optimal, this means that a signal-to- noise ratio at a decoder after differential decoding can be maximized. From equation 4 it can be seen that a differential encoding is carried out implicitly, so that a signal b ⁇ i, j) ::: b(i, j) ⁇ b d ; ff (i, j-1), which has to be computed in EP .10154964, does not need to be computed in embodiments of the present invention.
  • phase rotation 1 12 during differential encoding is introduced, to archive a host, interference rejection with an implicit differential encoding, which is a significant advantage, especially when compared to the embedding method stated in EP 10154964,
  • Fig. 3a shows in a diagram the host signal plus watermark for the previous temporal slot, namely the previous spectral coefficient awm(i, of the watermarked signal, as a vector 310 in the complex plane. Furthermore, the current spectral coefficient a(i, j) of the host signal 118 is shown as another vector 312 in the complex plane.
  • the current audio signal afi, j) or the current spectral coefficient a(i, j) of the host signal 1 18 represents the center of a circle on which the phase rotation 1 12 can be applied to the current stream value b(i, j). Furthermore, the radius of the circle after scaling the current stream value b(i, j) may delimit some masking region of the host signal 1 18.
  • the radius of the circle may be scaled based on the current scaling factor ⁇ ( ⁇ , j).
  • the current stream value b(i, j) may comprise a phase of 0 or a phase of %, depending on its value.
  • the current stream value b(L j) may either take the value -1 or +1 , this rule may apply if the discrete valued data 104 is binary data, the stream 1 10 therefore may comprise only binary stream values.
  • Th vector b a, ( i, j) may therefore correspond with a first value (for example -1) of the current stream value b(L j) and the vector b (b) ( i, j) may correspond with a complementary value (for example +1) of the current stream value b(i, j).
  • Fig, 3b shows the circle from Fig. 3a after the phase rotation 112 has been applied to the current stream value b(i, j). It. be seen from Fig, 3b, that the phase angle ⁇ ( ⁇ , j - 1) by which the circle from Fig. 3a is rotated is identical to the phase angle ⁇ ( ⁇ , j - 1) of the previous spectral coefficient awm(i, j - 1) of the watermarked signal. In other words, the current stream value b(L j) is phase shifted by the phase 1 16 of the previous spectral coefficient awm(i, j - 1) of the watermarked signal,
  • Fig, 3c shows the circle from Fig, 3b after scaling 210 of the phase rotated current stream value b(L j).
  • the circle therefore delimits the masking region.
  • the watermark wm(i, j) or the current watermark coefficient wm(i s j) is constructed either as wm a> (i, j) or as wm (b) (i, j) depending on the current stream value b(i, j).
  • the current spectral coefficient awm(i, j) of the watermarked signal can be obtained, by a summation of the current spectral coefficient a(i, j) of the host, signal 118 and a. rotated (and, optimally, scaled) version of the current stream value b(L j) such, that the current spectral coefficient awm(i, j) lies on or within the circle, the center of which is defined by the current spectral coefficient a.(i, j) of the host signal 1.18, a radius of which is determined by a magnitude of the current stream value b(i, j) and a range of values of the current scaling factor ⁇ ( ⁇ 5 j).
  • This embedding strategy reduces the distortion induced by the host signal 118 and thus improves the decoding process a a decoder.
  • the circle of radius ⁇ ( ⁇ , j) delimits the area of the complex plane in which the current watermark coefficient m(i, j), which is expressed as a vector centered in the current spectral coefficient a(i, j) of the host signal 1 1 8, can be defined.
  • the current scaling factor ⁇ (1, j) is provided by the psychoacoustical model and ensures that the watermark will be inaudible. To achieve the highest SIR, namely the highest signal to interference (i.e. the host signal 1 18) ratio, it can be optimal to place the current watermark coefficient wm(i, j) on the circle rather than within it. In other words, it may be optimal to use the maximum allowed power of the watermark coefficients of the watermark signal 102. In other words it may be optimal to use the current scaling factor y(i, j) provided by the psychoacoustical model for the scaling 210 rather than another (also allowed) scaling factor which is smaller than the current scaling factor y(i, j).
  • the masking region (which is a circle in Figs. 3a to 3c) may have a kidney shape.
  • a circular masking region is assumed in the embodiments described in this application. in the embodiment described above the invention was presented in a more specific way, this means in a two-point solution, wherein no stream value to watermark symbol mapping is performed. This two-point solution may be of great importance for current practical applications. However, more general multi-point solutions may be of interest in future applications. Therefore, in the following, another embodiment of the invention will be described which extends the specific two-point solution to a more general higher order solution.
  • Fig. 4 shows a block schematic diagram of a differential encoder 408, for use in a watermark generator according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • the differential encoder 408 differs from the differential encoder 208 in that it is configured to perform the stream value to watermark symbol mapping 1 14, which was also mentioned as an optional feature of the watermark generator 100 in Fig. 1 ,
  • the differential encoder 408 comprises a subconsteilation selector 402 and a decider 404.
  • the decider 404 may also be called multi-point decider 404.
  • the subconsteilation selector 402 is configured to selectively provide a plurality of current watermark symbols x k (i, j) (i, j, k e N), which constitute a subconsteilation, in dependence on the current stream value b(i, j).
  • the differential encoder 408 may be configured to apply a phase rotation 1 12 to each of th current watermark symbols x k (i, j) of the subeonsteilation corresponding to the current stream value b(i household j), to obtain a plurality of current candidate watermark coefficients wrrs k (i, j).
  • the differential encoder 408 further may be configured to perform a. scaling 210 of each of the current watermark symbols X
  • the current scaling factor ⁇ ( ⁇ , j) is equal for each of the current watermark- symbols Xk(i, j) of the subeonsteilation corresponding to the current stream value b(i, j).
  • the differential encoder 408 may therefore also be configured to apply the phase rotation 112 to a scaled version of the current watermark symbols Xk( . i, j). According to further embodiments of the present invention the differential encoder 408 may firstly perform the phase rotation 1 12 and then perform the scaling 210.
  • the decider 404 may be configured to choose one out of the current candidate watermark, coefficients wm ⁇ i, j) as the current watermark coefficient wm(i, j).
  • the differential encoder 408, or, more precise the subeonsteilation selector 402 may always code 1 bit (one stream value of the stream 110) always with M symbols.
  • the stream 1 10 only contains binary values or in other words the stream values of the stream. 1 10 can only take binary values.
  • the stream values may be either -1 or +1.
  • the current stream value b(i, j) may therefore he e ⁇ -1 , 1 ) .
  • the current stream value b(i, j) or the bit b(i, j) enters the subeonsteilation selection block or the subeonsteilation selector 402,
  • An output of the subeonsteilation selector 402 comprises, as stated in Fig. 6, M/2 complex watermark symbols xi(i, j), ... XM/2 ' i, j).
  • the M/2 points constitute the subeonsteilation, which corresponds to one bit. state or in other words the subeonsteilation corresponds to the current stream value b(i, j).
  • the k-th point of the subeonsteilation can be computed as: x k (i, j) - exp ( (2 ⁇ ⁇ (k - 1) ⁇ . j)))) (7) where
  • the subconsieliation selector 402 may provide the plurality of current watermark symbols 3 ⁇ 4 ( ⁇ , j) as complex values, such that different current watermark symbols only differ in phase and such that phase differences of different adjacent current watermark symbols associated with the same current stream value b(i, j) are equal.
  • a phase difference between watermark symbols of the same subconsieliation is always ⁇ /2.
  • a phase difference between two adjacent watermark symbols of different subconstellations is always equal and is half of the phase difference between two adjacent watermark symbols of the same subconstellation
  • each symbol in the subconstellation in other words each watermark symbol ⁇ ⁇ ( ⁇ , j) of the subconstellation is scaled according to the current scaling factor ⁇ ( ⁇ , j) given by the psychoacoustic model and is then rotated according to the phase 116 of the previous spectral coefficient awm(i, j - 1 ) of the watermarked signal.
  • Each scaled and rotated symbol in tire subconstellation entering the decider 404 for example as the current watermark candidates wn3 ⁇ 4(i, j), is a candidate for the current watermark coefficient wm(i, j).
  • the decider 404 chooses which of the candidates, denoted by wnij(i, j),. , , wm flf i(i, j) should be used as watermark (as the current watermark coefficient wm(i, j)),
  • the signal-to-noise ratio of the watermarked signal can be improved, meaning that the watermark may survive more easily the distortions introduced, for example by microphone noise,
  • the symbols in the subconstellation are closer for larger M (this means the phase difference gets smaller). This implies that the bit error rate BER will increase. Given this tradeoff, die choice of M depends on the desired application.
  • the value of the current stream value b(i, j) 1. From Fig. 6a the subconstellation for this ease can be found in the first column, third row of the table shown, in Fig.
  • the subconstellation therefore comprises four current candidate watermark symbols Xi(i, j) to x 4 (i, j), which are spaced apart, from each other with a phase of ⁇ /2.
  • the current watermark symbols Xi fi, j) to X4(i, j) have already been scaled and phase rotated to obtain the current candidate watermark coefficients wmi(i, j) to wm 4 (i, j).
  • the multipoint decider 404 derives, based on the combination of the current spectral coefficient a(L j) of the host signal 1 18 and the current candidate watermark coefficients wmi(i, j) to wni4(i, j), the current candidate watermarked spectral coefficients awm ⁇ i, j) to awm 4 (i, j). The decider 404 then chooses the current candidate watermark coefficient which corresponds to the current candidate watermarked spectral coefficient with the highest power. In the example shown in Fig.
  • the decider 404 would choose the current candidate watermark coefficient wni 3 (i, j) as the current watermark coefficient wm(i, j), because its corresponding current candidate watermarked spectral coefficient awni ⁇ i, j) has the highest power out of the current candidate watermarked spectral coefficients awmj(i, j) to awnij.(i, j).
  • the watermark coefficients wm(i, j) are chosen such that awm(i, j) lies within the masking region and the signal-to-noise ratio at the decoder after differential decoding is maximized, e.g. when a decoding rule like in equation 13 is used.
  • M 2
  • the scheme in Fig. 4 simplifies greatly.
  • Fig. 7 shows a block schematic diagram of a watermark generator 700 according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • a iunctionality of the watermark generator 700 may be similar to functionality of the watermark generator 100.
  • the watermark generator 700 may comprise the optional features shown in Fig. 7,
  • the watermark generator 700 comprises an information processor 706, a differential encoder 708 and a modulator 710.
  • a functionality of the information processor 706 may be similar to the functionality of the information processor 106 and the information processor 706 may comprise the additional features shown in Fig. 7,
  • the differential encoder 708 may be the differential encoder 108, the differential encoder 208, the differential encoder 408 or another differential encoder according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • a signaling block 712 of the information processor 706 organizes the data in packets of equal length and appends overhead bits, A packet of payioad bits together with the overhead is denoted as a message.
  • a channel encoder 714 of the information processor 706 adds redundancy to the message for forward error correction purposes.
  • the data is spread in frequency, for example binary data for the different subchannels i is generated by a frequenc spreader 716 of the information processor 706,
  • a synchronization signal is inserted by multiplying the matrix of binary information by a concatenation of synchronization sequences.
  • This synchronization scheme insertion can be performed by a synchronization scheme inserter 718 of the information processor 706,
  • a time spreader 720 of the information processor 706 carries out a spreading in time domain, this means adds further redundancy in order to gain more robustness against noise.
  • An output of the information processor 706 is binary data (for example the stream 1 10 of subsequent stream values, also denoted as b(i, j)), where i indicates a subchannel and j indicates the time slot or symbol number.
  • the differential encoder 708 carries out the host interference rejection and differential encoding process on the stream 1 10 of subsequent stream values which is provided by the time spreading block 720.
  • the differential encoder 708 may also be denoted as host interference rejection and differential encoding block 708.
  • the differential encoder 708 may for example be similar or equal to the differential encoder 108 from Fig. 1 , the differential encoder 208 from Fig. 2 or the differential encoder 408 from Fig. 4.
  • Th differential encoder 708 provides the watermark signal 102 in the time frequency domain as a sequence of subsequent watermark coefficients wm(i, j) (i, j e N) for a plurality of frequency bands.
  • the output of the differential encoder 708 consists of the watermark coefficients wm(i, j) (i, j € N).
  • the modulator 710 is configured to derive the watermark signal in a time domain based on the subsequent watermark coefficients of the watermark signal 102 in the lime frequency domain, The modulator 710 therefore provides the watermark signal 722 as a time domain watermark signal 722, which is also denoted as wni(t). In other words, the job of the remaining modulator 710 is to convert the watermark coefficients wm(i, j), (i, j e N). into the time signal wm(t).
  • the resulting time domain watermark signal 722 (wm(t)) is the watermark which can be added to the (audio) host signal a(t).
  • the watermark generator which is described in EP 10154964 shall be explained in short as a comparison example to the watermark generator 700 according to an embodiment of the present invention shown in Fig. 7.
  • Fig. 8a shows a block schematic diagram of a watermark generator 800 as it is described in EP 10154964.
  • the watermark generator 800 may also perform the signaling, channel encoding, frequency spreading, synchronization scheme inserting and time spreading to the binary data at its input, to obtain a stream 804 of binary data as a sequence of subsequent binary values b(i, j) (i, j e N) for a plurality of frequency bands.
  • the watermark generator 800 comprises a differential encoder 802 which then performs a differential encoding on the stream 804 of binary data.
  • An output of the differential encoder 802 is: b dif ,j 3 ⁇ 4 lff (i,j--l) - b(ij) ( 1 1)
  • the output of the differential encoder 802 is a stream 808 of subsequent differentially encoded binary coefficients b m (i, j) (i, j e N).
  • a modulator 806 of the watermark generator 800 transforms the resulting binary data b dm . (i 5 j) (i, j e N) into a time signal and performs amplitude scaling at the same time according to scaling factors (for example y(i,j)) given by a psychoacoustica! model.
  • scaling factors for example y(i,j)
  • a resulting time signal wm(t) is the watermark which can be added to an audio host signal a(t).
  • the watermark wm(i, j) is chosen between wm (a -'(i,j) or wm (n) (i, j) depending on b djff . In other words either 1 ⁇ 2 (i) (i, j) or wm (i, ' ' (i, j ) is chosen as the watermark wni(i, j) depending on b. (i, j) .
  • Fig. 9 shows a block schematic diagram of the watermark generator 700 from Fig. 7 in conjunction with a psychoacoustical processing module 902 to provide a time domain watermarked audio signal awm(t).
  • the watermark generator 700 is only used as an example. The watermark generator therefore may be substituted with any other watemmrk generator according to embodiments of the present invention.
  • the watermark generator 700 receives as inputs discrete valued data 104 (in the present example binary data 104), a host signal 118 (in the present example a time domain audio host signal 118) and a current scaling factor ⁇ ( ⁇ j).
  • the scaling factor ⁇ ( ⁇ , j) is provided by the psychoacoustical processing module 902 based on the time domain audio host signal 118.
  • the psychoacoustical processing module 902 provides scaling factors y(i, j) (i, j s N) for each stream value b(i, j) (i, j 6 N) which are internally generated in the watermark generator 700.
  • the psychoacoustical processing module 802 provides the current scaling factor y(i, j) in each subchannel i (at center frequency f) and for each time slot j.
  • the resulting signal of the watermark generator 700 is the time domain watermark s gnal wni(l).
  • This resulting time signal wm(t) is the watermark which is added to the time domain audio host signal a(t).
  • the watermarked host signal: awm(t)— a(t) + wm(t) (12) can be transmitted over a communication channel and constitutes a received signal y(t) at the receiver.
  • Fig. 10 shows a flow diagram of a method 1000 for providing a watermark signal as a sequence of subsequent watermark coefficients based on discrete valued data.
  • the method 1000 comprises a step 1002 of providing in dependence on information units of the discrete valued data a first stream of subsequent values, such that the first stream represents the discrete valued data.
  • the method 1000 further comprises a step 1004 of applying a phase rotation to a current stream value or to a current watermark symbol, the current watermark symbol corresponding to a current stream value of the stream values representing the discrete valued data, to obtain a current watermark coefficient of the watermark signal,
  • the method 1000 further comprises a step 1006 of deriving a phase of a spectral coefficient of a watermarked signal which is a combination of a host signal and the watermark signal
  • the method 1000 further comprises a step 1008 of providing the watermarked signal such that a phase angle of the phase rotation applied to the current stream value or to the current watermark symbol is dependent on the phase of the previous spectral coefficient of the watermarked signal
  • a receiver which comprises a watermark decoder
  • the inverse of the mentioned operations for generating the watermark signal is carried out in reverse order to decode the watermark.
  • the differential encoder 208 from Fig. 2 is used in the watermark generator to generate the watermark signal the differential decoding can be performed by:
  • ⁇ , ⁇ ] Zb" orir ' (j) .
  • b 0 TM ⁇ are normalized complex coefficients given by an analysis filter bank in subchannel i (at center frequency £) representing a received signal y(t) and the variable j is the temporal index.
  • the resulting real valued soft bits b i (j) are the estimates of b(i, j).
  • the differential decoding works in that if the phase difference is 0 the cosine is 1, whereas for a phase difference equal to ⁇ the cosine becomes -1.
  • y(t) represents the watermarked signal awm(t) which has been transmitted over a communication channel.
  • This differential decoding principle works fine for watermark signals generated by the differential encoder 208 in which the phase rotation 1 12 is directly applied to the current stream values b(i, j) (i j e N) of the stream 110. in other words this decoding principle works for differential encoders in which no stream value to watermark symbol mapping 11.4 is applied. Therefore, a decoder, which is configured to decode the watermark signal 102 generated by the differential encoder 208 can be similar to a decoder, which is configured to decode a watermark signal generated by the differential encoder 802 of the watermark generator stated in EP 10154964.
  • M-point constellation with M > 2 implies a use of a different decoder.
  • Such an M-point constellation has been shown with the differential encoder 408 according to Fig, 4, which applies a stream value to watermark symbol mapping 114 to each of the stream values b(i, j) (i, j e N) of the stream 110.
  • Fig. 11 shows a block schematic diagram of a decoder 1100 according to an embodiment of the present invention, which is configured to decode such M-point constellation watermark signals.
  • the watermark decoder 1100 for providing discrete valued data 1 102 comprises an information processor 1104 and a diflereniial decoder 1 106, the information processor 1 104 is configured to provide a stream 1 108 of complex valued spectral coefficients b 0i'ffi (j) (i, j e N), the stream 1108 representing the watermarked signal 1 101 .
  • the information processor 1 104 may be configured to provide a stream 1 108 for each frequency subchannel i,
  • the differential decoder 1106 is configured to determine a phase angle difference 1 1 10 (also denoted as ⁇ ; d,ff (j)) between a previous complex valued spectral coefficient 1 1 12 (also denoted as b" 0 TM (j - 1)) and a current complex valued spectral coefficient 1 1 14 (also denoted as hTM"" (j)).
  • the differential decoder 1 106 is further configured to map phase angle differences within at least two different phase angle ranges to a first discrete value 1 116 of the discrete valued data 1 102 and to map phase angle differences within at least another two different phase angle ranges to a second discrete value 11 18 of the discrete valued data 1102.
  • the discrete valued data 1 102 may for example be binary data and the first discrete value 1 116 may for example correspond to a logical 1 and the second discrete value 1 1 18 may for example correspond to a logical— 1 or 0.
  • the differential decoder 1106 may be configured to choose in response to the determined phase difference 1 110 falling into the phase angle ranges mapped to the first, discrete value 1 1 16, the first, discrete value as a value for a current element of the discrete valued data 1 102 and to choose in response to the determined phase difference 1110 falling into the phase angle ranges mapped to the second discrete value 1 1 18, the second discrete value as a value for the current element of the discrete valued data 1102.
  • the information processor 1 104 may be configured to provide the stream .1 10S of complex spectral coefficients in a frequency time domain, such that each spectral coefficient corresponds to one frequency subchannel i and one time slot j .
  • the differential decoder 1 106 may be configured such that the previous complex spectral coefficient 1112 and the current complex spectral coefficient 1114 correspond to adjacent time slots j, j - 1 and to the same frequency subchannel i.
  • Fig. 12 shows how the differential decoder 1 106 may perform the mentioned phase angle ranges mapping.
  • a phase angle is drawn in an anti clockwise direction starting from a point 1210 with the a phase angle of 0.
  • a first angle range 1202 which ranges from -% /4 (or 7 ⁇ /4) to /4 and a second phase angle range 1204 which ranges from 3 ⁇ /4 to 5 ⁇ /4 are mapped to the first discrete value 1 1 16 by the differential decoder 1 106.
  • a phase drift through the communication channel smaller than ⁇ /4 may not lead to a bit error
  • the differential decoder 1 106 may be configured to map the phase angle ranges to the discrete values such thai adjacent phase angle ranges are mapped to two different discrete values of the discrete value data 1 102.
  • M -point constellation with M > 2 implies the use of a different decoder.
  • One significant difference to conventional (traditional) decoders is the mapping of the bits, in that a traditional system typically codes log ⁇ i ) bits with M symbols, whereas at least some of the proposed systems always code 1 bit with M symbols. in the following some aspects of the present, invention will be summarized in short.
  • a watermark scheme employed in embodiments of the present invention comprises a multi-chamiel differential BPSK method for embedding digital information in an audio signal.
  • Each of several subchannels i is related to a frequency (fj) of a time frequency representation of the audio signal a(t).
  • the information to be transmitted in one subchannel i is contained in the phase difference of consecutive coefficients b(i, j) (i, j e N) of a time frequency representation.
  • Embodiments of the present invention have been presented in a more specific way using the differential encoder 208 in Fig. 2 and have been presented in a more generalized way using the differential encoder 408 in Fig, 4.
  • the two-point solution shown in Fig, 2 may be of greater importance for the current, practical application. However, the more general multipoint solution presented in r ig. 4 might be of interest in future applications.
  • At least some embodiments of the present invention relate to digital audio watermarking, i.e. some modification of an audio signal in order to hide digital data and the corresponding decoder capable of receiving this information while the perceived quality of the modified audio signal remains indistinguishable (inaudible) to the one of the original.
  • Embodiments of the present invention create a method for generating an inaudible watermark featuring differential encoding in the time frequency domain,
  • the watermark is shaped optimally, or at least approximately optimally or signal-adapted, considering the host audio signal to maximize the decoder performance.
  • the choice of the order of the symbol constellation allows to tradeoff robustness against external noise sources (i.e.
  • Embodiments of the present invention create a (partly) host interference rejecting watermark embedding method which implicitly contains a differential encoding scheme, impie-Vierstauon Alternatives
  • a block or device corresponds to a method step or a feature of a method step.
  • aspects described in the context of a method step also represent a description of a corresponding block or item or feature of a corresponding apparatus.
  • Some or all of the method steps may be executed by (or using) a hardware apparatus, like for example, a microprocessor, a programmable computer or an electronic circuit. In some embodiments, some one or more of the most important method steps may be executed by such an apparatus.
  • embodiments of the invention can be implemented in hardware or in software.
  • the implementation can be performed using a digital storage medium, for example a floppy disk, a DVD, a Blue-Ray, a CD, a ROM. a PROM, an EPROM, an EEPROM or a FLASH memory, having electronically readable control signals stored thereon, which cooperate (or are capable of cooperating) with a programmable computer system such that the respective method is performed. Therefore, the digital storage medium may be computer readable.
  • Some embodiments according to the invention comprise a data carrier having electronically readable control signals, which are capable of cooperating with a programmable computer system, such that one of the methods described herein is performed.
  • embodiments of the present invention can be implemented as a computer program product with a program code, the program code being operative for performing one of the methods when the computer program product runs on a computer.
  • the program code may for example be stored on a machine readable carrier,
  • inventions comprise the computer program for performing one of the methods described herein, stored on a machine readable carrier.
  • an embodiment of the inventive method is, therefore, a computer program having a program code for performing one of the methods described herein, when the computer program runs on a computer.
  • a further embodiment of the inventive methods i therefore, a data carrier (or a digital storage medium, or a computer-readable medium) comprising, recorded thereon, the computer program for performing one of the methods described herein.
  • the data carrier, the digital storage medium or the recorded medium are typically tangible and/or non- transiiiffy.
  • a further embodiment of the inventive method is, therefore, a data stream or a sequence of signals representing the computer program for performing one of the methods described herein.
  • the data stream or the sequence of signals may for example be configured to be transferred via a data commimication comiection, for example via the internet.
  • a further embodiment comprises a processing means, for example a computer, or a. programmable logic device, configured to or adapted to perform one of the methods described herein.
  • a processing means for example a computer, or a. programmable logic device, configured to or adapted to perform one of the methods described herein.
  • a further embodiment comprises a computer having installed thereon the computer program for performing one of the methods described herein.
  • a further embodiment according to the invention comprises an apparatus or a system configured to transfer (for example, electronically or optically) a computer program for performing one of the methods described herein to a receiver.
  • the receiver may. for example, be a computer, a mobile device, a memory device or the like.
  • the apparatus or system may, for example, comprise a file server for transferring the computer program to the receiver .
  • a programmable logic device for example a field programmable gate array
  • a field programmable gate array may cooperate with a microprocessor in order to perform one of the methods described herein.
  • the methods ar preferably performed by any hardware apparatus.

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Abstract

Un générateur de filigrane permettant de fournir un signal de filigrane sous forme de séquence de coefficients de filigrane consécutifs d'après un flux de valeurs de flux consécutives représentant des données à valeurs discrètes comprend un codeur différentiel. Le codeur différentiel est configuré pour appliquer une rotation de phase à une valeur de flux actuelle des valeurs de flux représentant les données à valeurs discrètes ou à un symbole de filigrane actuel, le symbole de filigrane actuel correspondant à une valeur de flux actuelle des valeurs de flux représentant les données à valeurs discrètes, afin d'obtenir un coefficient de filigrane actuel du signal de filigrane. Le codeur différentiel est configuré pour dériver une phase d'un coefficient spectral précédent d'un signal filigrané qui est une combinaison du signal hôte et du signal de filigrane. Le codeur différentiel est également configuré pour fournir le signal de filigrane de sorte qu'un angle de phase de la rotation de phase appliquée à la valeur de flux actuelle ou au symbole de filigrane actuel dépende de la phase du coefficient spectral précédent du signal filigrané.
PCT/EP2011/066118 2010-09-21 2011-09-16 Générateur de filigrane, décodeur de filigrane, procédé permettant de fournir un signal filigrané d'après des données à valeurs discrètes et procédé permettant de fournir des données à valeurs discrètes en fonction d'un signal filigrané WO2012038344A1 (fr)

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